Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.
I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.
I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.
The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.
I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.
If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty. . . of people starving while there are unused resources. . . people having skills which are not being used.